Talk: “A negative dowry”: Specters of debt and the family from the origins of the student loan industry in the United States
Talk: “A negative dowry”: Specters of debt and the family from the origins of the student loan industry in the United States By Britain Hopkins (Wellesley College, Sociology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: High levels of student loan debt are a cornerstone of higher education in the United States today. This talk provides an overview […]
Talk: Shakespeare’s Turkish Sonnets?
Talk: Shakespeare’s Turkish Sonnets? By Robert Stagg (University of Oxford, Shakespeare Institute) Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 17:30 (reception at 17:00) Time: 1700-1830 Room: A130 Abstract: If Shakespeare became the English ‘national poet’ in the eighteenth century, he has spent subsequent centuries as an international poet. Yet scholarship about a so-called ‘Global Shakespeare’ has had comparatively little to say about […]
Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology
Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology By Jeroen Poblome (KU Leuven, archaeology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: In methods, practices and concepts, the discipline of Archaeology remains in full motion. Ever newer computational modelling techniques are being unleased. Ever more detailed methods of spatial analysis are being employed. While […]